“Technology needs to be unobtrusive and support the process of providing high quality patient care,” said David Y. Ting, MD, CMIO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. “Having Nuance’s AI-powered virtual assistant technology embedded into Epic will help make a new generation of patient care a reality – for both clinicians and patients.”

Epic Rover – Beyond notes entry, nurses using Epic Rover will now also be able to use Nuance’s virtual assistant to conversationally interact with flowsheets to enter and confirm patient information, including blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation and other vitals. This enhanced functionality runs on iOS or Android-enabled mobile devices.

Epic Cadence – Scheduling staff, including those with physical disabilities, will be able to converse with Nuance’s virtual assistant, to check physician schedules and create, look up, and cancel patient appointments using voice and natural dialogue.

“Nuance’s AI-powered virtual assistants with conversational AI functionality expand the ways that physicians and care teams can instantly capture and retrieve patient information,” said Carl Dvorak, president of Epic. “These advancements represent a growing need for next-level conversational AI capabilities and we expect them to be a catalyst for changing how and what physicians are required to document in progress notes.”

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Virtual assistant technology designed and optimized for healthcareBuilding on decades of experience in healthcare, its extensive market footprint, and applying Nuance technology that has supported many of the leading consumer, enterprise and automotive brands in the world, Nuance’s virtual assistant platform is optimized for the healthcare market by:

Building on Dragon Medical, which is trusted by more than 500,000 clinicians worldwide to accurately create and communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year

Providing pre-built skills delivered through conversational dialogues that automate high-value clinical workflows, including secure search and navigation of the patient chart, clinical and administrative tasks, place orders, facilitate communications, manage schedules, and unobtrusively capture clinical documentation across a wide range of general and specialty workflows

Deeply integrating with EHR workflows that clinicians use every day

Innovating a specialized smart speaker prototype that is connected to the Dragon Medical cloud and optimized for complex medical conversations and ambient speech use cases

“Epic’s EHR, integrated with our AI-powered virtual assistant technology, represents extensive product collaboration and strategic alignment between both companies on the importance of delivering greater clinician productivity and efficiency across the care continuum,” said Satish Maripuri, executive vice president and general manager, Healthcare division, Nuance Communications. “Our new healthcare virtual assistant technology is a first step in a new generation of innovation that will empower care teams to work more naturally and reinforces both companies’ beliefs that to improve the overall quality of care, we must enable clinicians and care teams to maximize time with their patients.”

To see AI in action and a demonstration of these unique capabilities that unburden care teams, visit Nuance booth #1143 and Epic Booth #4432 at HIMSS 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 5-8, 2018.

About Nuance Healthcare
Nuance provides intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture, improve, and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality, and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users, and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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